Word: anderson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some of the best Kansas wheatlands are in Ford County, in the state's southwest corner. Some of Ford County's best wheat land-600 acres of it-is on Franklin Oliver Anderson's farm, about six miles out from Dodge City, south of the airport on Rural Route 3. At 51, Franklin Anderson is lean and hard, chocolate-browned by the sun and wind. His farm is his pride, and rightly. He has no debts; his house, unlike the typical Kansas brown frame, is a cheery, red-roofed, red-shuttered white stucco behind a spic-&-span...
Then to the rendezvous came the queen bee. Dave's Dream's weaponeers, two 26-year-old ensigns, David L. Anderson and Leon D. Smith, had armed the bomb within 20 minutes after takeoff. Soaring at 30,000 feet above the polka-dotted lagoon, Dave's Dream made a dry run into the northeast wind. Bombardier Major Harold H. Wood-known to his crewmates as "Lemon Bar" because of his success at officers'-club slot machines-twirled the knobs on his bombsight, tried to line up the target ship Nevada with the cross hairs...
Another, no less remarkable, was the Little Review, founded in Chicago in 1914 by a woman of even greater vim. Margaret Anderson wanted to fill it with "the best conversation the world has to offer," and for some years she pretty well succeeded. She lived for months in a tent by the shore of Lake Michigan in order to put out the magazine. In 1918, after moving to Manhattan, she began a three-year struggle to publish Joyce's Ulysses-in which Uncle Alfred, disguised as a Dublin Jew, suffered the most exhaustive and stylistically lavish scrutiny...
...story is a Hecht original: a great dancer (Ivan Kirov), subject to fits of homicidal insanity, marries a budding ballerina (Viola Essen), who hopes that his dancing and her love will work a cure. Great Teacher Judith Anderson and threadbare Impresario Michael Chekhov, torn between terror and balletomania, hover unhappily in the wings. Another sideliner, Poet Lionel Stander, grates out Mr. Hecht's own highly debatable views on Love & Art, and dashes an occasional gruelly tear from his granitic eye. To climax a triumphant tour, the dancer's mind finally cracks and he turns...
...Antheil's alert score is the absence of Spectre's traditional music (Carl Maria von Weber's Invitation to the Waltz). Among the film's good points: young Kirov's tormented athleticism; Viola Essen's fresh beauty; the rich, workmanlike performances of Miss Anderson and Mr. Chekhov...